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New York Times, Monday, April 15, 1996

Author:
S. L. Robbins
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Down : Word with escalator or subordinate
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Sidney L. Robbins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQVXZ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 193 for Mr. Robbins. Monday freshness: 20%
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© 1996, The New York Times4/15/96 ( No. 16,960 )
Across
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Island south of Sicily : MALTA
6
One of the three B's : BACH
10
Church nook : APSE
14
Once more : AGAIN
15
Melville novel : OMOO
16
Brag : CROW
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Decide against, from fear : CHICKENOUT
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Present : HERE
20
Topeka native : KANSAN
21
On___ (for later approval) : SPEC
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She, objectively : HER
24
Coolio's music : RAP
26
Quench : SLAKE
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Conducted : LED
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Iowa college town : AMES
33
Dish cleaner : SPONGE
36
"Take___from me" : ATIP
38
Grand saga : EPIC
40
Comforted : EASED
41
Hans Christian Andersen story : THEUGLYDUCKLING
44
Foreword : INTRO
45
Wall Street order : SELL
46
Toward shelter : ALEE
47
Clink, clank and clunk : NOISES
49
Smack : SLAP
51
Curved letter : ESS
52
Contractual matters : TERMS
54
Big___, Calif. : SUR
55
Inventor Whitney : ELI
57
Locale : SITE
59
Barely conceal one's anger : SEETHE
64
Cargo : LOAD
66
Ballroom dance to ragtime music : TURKEYTROT
68
Florence's river : ARNO
69
Jane Austen novel : EMMA
70
Wipe out : ERASE
71
Bird pad : NEST
72
Quarrel : SPAT
73
Store sects. : DEPTS
Down
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Built like a___truck : MACK
2
Turkish bigwig : AGHA
3
Reclined : LAIN
4
Spasms : TICS
5
Turkish capital : ANKARA
6
___mot (witticism) : BON
7
Famous cookie man : AMOS
8
Ends of juntas : COUPS
9
Monopoly purchases : HOTELS
10
"___du lieber!" : ACH
11
Like a monkey's tail : PREHENSILE
12
Kind of loser : SORE
13
Pitcher : EWER
18
Tooth layer : ENAMEL
22
"R.U.R." dramatist : CAPEK
25
Diarist Samuel : PEPYS
27
Australian "bear" : KOALA
28
Language of Lucretius : LATIN
29
Prefix with centric : ETHNO
30
Food gurus : DIETITIANS
32
Borders : SIDES
34
Heredity determinants : GENES
35
Borders : EDGES
37
Prize money : PURSE
39
Selects : CULLS
42
Traveling types : GOERS
43
Word with escalator or subordinate : CLAUSE
48
Deals a heavy blow : SMITES
50
Victimized, with "upon" : PREYED
53
Nonplus : STUMP
55
Dash : ELAN
56
Folk wisdom : LORE
58
Witty Bombeck : ERMA
60
To be, in Paris : ETRE
61
Snare : TRAP
62
Party thrower : HOST
63
French seasons : ETES
65
Speck : DOT
67
Cartoondom's Krazy___ : KAT

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